The 100 Greatest Operas

Provided the year of its first premiere (any version of it), its composer, and a notable aria constituting it, name the 100 greatest operas, according to 'digitaldreamdoor.com'. Whenever appropriate, the English name of the operas and the native name of the aria (except for those in Russian) are included for consistency. The best of luck to you all, never cede the conquest of knowledge!

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Year	Composer	Aria	Opera
1876	Richard Wagner	Die Walküre	The Ring of the Nibelung
1865	Richard Wagner	Liebestod	Tristan and Isolde
1787	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	L'ho perduta	Don Giovanni
1887	Giuseppe Verdi	Niun mi terma	Otello
1786	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Voi che sapete cosa è amor	The Marriage of Figaro
1871	Giuseppe Verdi	O patria mia	Aida
1896	Giacomo Puccini	Questo mar rosso	La Bohème
1904	Giacomo Puccini	Un bel dì	Madame Butterfly
1911	Richard Strauss	Die Zeit ist ein sonderbar Ding	The Knight of the Rose
1882	Richard Wagner	Karfreitagszauber	Parsifal
1874	Modest Mussorgsky	Glory! Glory! Glory!	Boris Godunov
1853	Giuseppe Verdi	Libiamo ne' lieti calici	The Fallen Woman
1875	Georges Bizet	L'amour est un oiseau rebelle	Carmen
1868	Richard Wagner	Walter's Prize Song	The Master-Singers
1791	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	O Isis und Osiris	The Magic Flute
1900	Giacomo Puccini	Vissi d'arte	Tosca
1893	Giuseppe Verdi	Quand'ero paggio	Falstaff
1851	Giuseppe Verdi	La donna è mobile	Rigoletto
1816	Gioachino Rossini	Una voce poco fa	The Barber of Seville
1853	Giuseppe Verdi	Di quella pira	The Troubadour
1890	Pietro Mascagni	O Lola c'hai di latti la cammisa	Cavalleria Rusticana
1926	Giacomo Puccini	Nessun dorma	Turandot
1859	Charles Gounod	O merveille! ... A moi les plaisirs	Faust
1850	Richard Wagner	Bridal Chorus	Lohengrin
1945	Benjamin Britten	Now the Great Bear and Pleiades	Peter Grimes
1831	Vincenzo Bellini	Casta Diva	Norma
1845	Richard Wagner	O Fürstin!	Tannhäuser
1892	Rugierro Leoncavallo	Vesti la giubba	Pagliacci
1902	Claude Debussy	Mes longs cheveux	Pelléas and Mélisande
1835	Gaetano Donizetti	Orrida è questa notte	Lucia of Lammermoor
1863	Hector Berlioz	Adieu, fière cité	The Trojans
1909	Richard Strauss	Vater Agamemnon	Elektra
1790	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Soave sia il vento	The School for Lovers
1935	George Gershwin	Summertime	Porgy and Bess
1805	Ludwig Van Beethoven	Leonore No. 2	Fidelio
1879	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Chorus of Maidens	Eugene Onegin
1925	Alban Berg	Marie's Room	Wozzeck
1643	Claudio Monteverdi	Disprezzata Regina	The Coronation of Poppaea
1689	Henry Purcell	Stay, Prince and hear	Dido and Aeneas
1762	Christoph Willibald Gluck	Chiamo il mio ben così	Orpheus and Eurydice
1905	Richard Strauss	Tanz der sieben Schleier	Salome
1821	Carl Maria von Weber	Schaut, o schaut	The Marksman
1867	Giuseppe Verdi	Le ballet de la reine	Don Carlos
1607	Claudio Monteverdi	Toccata	L'Orfeo
1924	Leos Janacek	The Forester's Aria	The Cunning Little Vixen
1881	Jacques Offenbach	Jour et Nuit	The Tales of Hoffman
1877	Camille Saint-Saëns	Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix	Samson and Delilah
1843	Richard Wagner	Santa's Ballad	The Flying Dutchman
1893	Engelbert Humperdink	Mother's Entrance	Hansel and Gretel
1876	Amilcare Ponichielli	Danza delle ore	La Gioconda
1951	Igor Stravinsky	Shadow's Departure	The Rake's Progress
1884	Jules Massenet	En fermant les yeux	Manon
1866	Bedrich Smetana	Dance of the Comedians	The Bartered Bride
1836	Giacomo Meyerbeer	O beau pays	The Huguenots
1862	Giuseppe Verdi	Oh, tu che in seno	The Power of Fate
1893	Giacomo Puccini	Donna non vidi mai	Manon Lescaut
1912	Richard Strauss	Großmächtige Prinzessin	Ariadne on Naxos
1867	Charles Gounod	Poison Aria	Romeo and Juliet
1832	Gaetano Donizetti	Una furtiva lagrima	The Elixir of Love
1883	Leo Delibes	The Flower Duet	Lakmé
1896	Umberto Giordano	La mamma morta	Andre Chénier
1892	Jules Massenet	Pourquoi me réveiller?	Werther
1843	Gaetano Donizetti	So anch'io la virtù magica	Don Pasquale
1904	Leos Janacek	In a moment	Jenůfa
1724	Georg Friedrich Handel	Va tacito e nascosto	Julius Caesar
1954	Benjamin Britten	Malo	The Turn of the Screw
1831	Vincenzo Bellini	Amina's Final Aria	The Sleepwalker
1918	Bela Bartok	Prologue of the Bard	Duke Bluebeard's Castle
1779	Christoph Willibald Gluck	Dieux qui me poursuivez	Iphigenia in Tauris
1900	Gustave Charpentier	Depuis le jour	Louise
1817	Gioachino Rossini	Miei rampolli femminini	Cinderella
1951	Benjamin Britten	The Battle of Salamis	Billy Budd
1733	Giovanni Pergolesi	Quest'è per me disgrazia	The Maid Turned Mistress
1823	Gioachino Rossini	Bella imago degli dei	Semiramide
1925	Ferruccio Busoni	Gibt es keine Gnade?	Doktor Faust
1928	Kurt Weill	A Walk to the Gallows	The Threepenny Opera
1890	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Ya vas lyublyu	The Queen of Spades
1960	Benjamin Britten	Over hill, over dale	A Midsummer Night's Dream
1886	Modest Mussorgsky	Dosifey's Aria	Khovanshchina
1767	Christoph Willibald Gluck	Divinites du Styx	Alceste
1835	Vincenzo Bellini	Vieni fra queste braccia	The Puritans
1737	Jean-Philippe Rameau	Tristes apprêts	Castor and Pollux
1859	Giuseppe Verdi	È scherzo od è follia	A Masked Ball
1957	Arnold Schoenberg	Das Goldene Kalb und der Altar	Moses and Aaron
1847	Giuseppe Verdi	Si colmi il calice	Macbeth
1909	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Hymn to the Sun	The Golden Cockerel
1925	Maurice Ravel	Ça m'est égal!	The Child and the Spells
1921	Leos Janacek	Zázrak	Káťa Kabanová
1782	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	O, wie will ich triumphieren	Il Seraglio
1781	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Zeffiretti lusinghieri	Idomeneo
1957	Francis Poulenc	Salve Regina	Dialogues of the Carmelites
1863	Georges Bizet	Au fond du temple saint	The Pearl Fishers
1976	Philip Glass	I Feel the Earth Move	Einstein on the Beach
1857	Giuseppe Verdi	Figlia! a tal nome io palpito	Simon Boccanegra
1918	Giacomo Puccini	Spogliati, bambolino	Gianni Schicchi
1840	Gaetano Donizetti	Depuis l'instant où, dans mes bras	The Daughter of the Regiment
1829	Gioachino Rossini	Sombre forêt	William Tell
1865	Giacomo Meyerbeer	O Paradis, sorti de l'ondes	The African Woman
1849	Giacomo Meyerbeer	Ô, Prêtres de Baal	The Prophet
1844	Giuseppe Verdi	Ah, morir potessi adesso	Ernani

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